Sam Altman taught me how to vibe code.
I’ve spent the past several months reading my colleagues’ excellent coverage on vibe coding and the many ways regular people, from firefighters to busy parents, are building creative solutions to simplify their lives.
I wanted to try it myself, but my limited coding experience — editing HTML to customize my MySpace page as a teen and a computer science 101 course in college that I can’t even begin to remember — deterred me, so I kept putting it off.
That is, until this week, when Altman, cofounder and CEO of OpenAI, shared on X a prompt he put into ChatGPT from his phone:
“use all my chat history to figure…
